<p>The company has a 20-year lease on 82.55 hectares of land in Yeshwantnagar in Sandur taluk for mining.<br /><br />In 2009, the Forest Department alleged that the company had encroached upon forest land and built a road and ordered the seizure of machinery. The Company approached the High Court, challenging this notification. <br /><br />The High Court in its ruling directed the Forest Department to return the machinery and verify the facts of encroachment again.<br /><br />Later, the Department of Mines and Geology issued a permit, but the Forest Department did not issue a pass despite the Deputy Commissioner’s instructions to do so. The company which had 80,000 metric tonne of ore to be transported approached the High Court again, due to non-compliance of order by the Forest Department.<br /></p>
<p>The company has a 20-year lease on 82.55 hectares of land in Yeshwantnagar in Sandur taluk for mining.<br /><br />In 2009, the Forest Department alleged that the company had encroached upon forest land and built a road and ordered the seizure of machinery. The Company approached the High Court, challenging this notification. <br /><br />The High Court in its ruling directed the Forest Department to return the machinery and verify the facts of encroachment again.<br /><br />Later, the Department of Mines and Geology issued a permit, but the Forest Department did not issue a pass despite the Deputy Commissioner’s instructions to do so. The company which had 80,000 metric tonne of ore to be transported approached the High Court again, due to non-compliance of order by the Forest Department.<br /></p>